A part of the processes in Eastern Europe involve a restructuring of the perception of social inequalities by the hegemonic neoliberal ideology. The degree to which various countries and social groups have embraced the free market and democracy has become a yardstick for classifying them as fitting more or less the category of the West. In the past a mental border between the West and the East was drawn on geographic map (Iron Curtain), while today a mental map has morphed into social space and the former spatial Others has been resurrected today as the socially stigmatized brothers. A strategy of blaming the victims has several shortcomings, but above all it is anti-sociological and it is also culture-deterministic. Resistance of subalterns hold responsible for failures of the neoliberal project, strengthens their assumed alterity. Intellectuals participate in dominant discourses and assume that they help in transforming people into “civilized citizens”.